Max Lewontin
- MaxLewontin2025@u.northwestern.edu
- Field(s): United States
- Advisor(s): Martha Biondi
Biography
Max Lewontin is a PhD candidate in history. His research interests include social movements, Black internationalism, the twentieth-century Caribbean, and labor history. His dissertation explores Black Power as a transnational movement spanning across the circum-Caribbean in the 1960s and 1970s, shaped by the mobility of people, ideas, and iconography.
Before coming to Northwestern, Max worked as a reporter for the Christian Science Monitor, the Chronicle of Higher Education and other publications. He holds a B.S. in Journalism from Boston University and an M.A. in History from King’s College London.
Publications
“Solidarity with the Most Oppressed Peoples of the Earth”: The Boston Chronicle and Black Internationalist Print Culture, 1945-1960,” Journal of Social History 56 no. 1 (Winter 2023), “Solidarity with the Most Oppressed Peoples of the Earth”: The Boston Chronicle and Black Internationalist Print Culture, 1945–60 | Journal of Social History | Oxford Academic (oup.com)